Escape Business Technologies has secured £500,000 of IT contracts since the beginning of April, with order books filling up for the installation of the revolutionary virtualisation technology, VMware.

VMware allows a single server unit to produce multiple 'virtual' machines that share a single hardware resource without interfering with each other.

The technology enables companies to cut down on the number of servers they need, taking up less space and reducing energy consumption and their carbon footprint.

Escape, the rapidly growing communication technologies firm, says its focus for the remainder of the year is to help its high-growth clients implement VMware technology to enable them to cope with rapid expansion while also helping them to reduce energy consumption.

The Aberdeen-based company has also won a number of contracts from blue-chip companies to provide upgrade and IT support services, and Escape engineers have been sent to work in the United States, Australia, Norway and Spain.

Escape is expected to report a 25 per cent increased turnover to £2.5m by the year's end.